1 Ponsonby: Well, there's a lot of leeway in this pirate curse. It might actually be merely sixteen, seventeen, possibly even 25 times worse than Death.2 Mate: Or, belike, 172 times worse.3 Ponsonby: Yes! We're talking three whole orders of magnitude here.4 Ponsonby: Fear, violence, superstition, all these things an officer of the Royal Navy takes in stride. But imprecision?